April First Thursday at PNCA
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The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art is excited to invite the public to the April First Thursday Art Walk in the North Park Blocks for a series of exhibition openings, live music, drop-in activities and refreshments!
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FIRST THURSDAY EVENTS
WITH PNCA! |
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| Opening Reception for Den - Hosted by Opsis Architecture | 5-7pm
Please join us for an opening reception during April First Thursday from 5-7pm at Opsis Architecture (920 NW 17th Ave) and then head into the rest of the North Park Blocks for more exhibitions and celebration in the neighborhood!
Curated by Charli Beck, Spring 2024 Graduate Curatorial Fellow.
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Expressions of Color - BiPOC Art Market at PNCA | 5-9pm
Shop through multiple tables and over 20 student vendors in the PNCA Historic Hallway to support the Students of Color Coalition and their current exhibition Expressions of Color, on view in the PNCA Atrium!
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Live Music with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid + DJ Timothy Bee!
DJ Timothy Bee representing the Portland natives and spinning nothing but the best music, come dance, groove and feel your best!
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DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have spent more than twenty three years igniting dance floors with cutting edge music not limited by borders or language. They host the longest-running Bhangra and Bollywood party in the world (Andaz est. 2002), co-founded the Pacific Northwest’s first Global Bass dance party (Atlas 2003-2013) and spent years hosting two weekly radio shows (CHOR BAZAAR on XRAY.FM and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kush on KBOO.FM.) In 2013 Anjali and The Kid initiated TROPITAAL! A Desi Latino Soundclash, which they host monthly at The Goodfoot.
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Photobooth with Photographer Ash Stone
Bring some friends, lovers, family, yourself, maybe some strangers to strike your best poses for some stellar portraits with a bit of seasonal flare! Ash Stone (she/they) is a queer latinx visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work, driven by the transformative power of play, serves as a method of healing and self-discovery. Ash’s creative practice works in tandem with community building, collaboration, and advocacy for art and education accessibility.
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Live Printmaking w/ SWANA Rose Culture and Community Center, Indigenous Peoples Power Project, Don't Shoot PDX and Flowers for Palestine!
Join us outside of PNCA for live screenprinting and tabling in collaboration with four activist organizations of the area! Learn more about their organizational missions and take art home!
The SWANA Rose Culture and Community Center is a gathering space for those with lineages tied to Southwest Asia and North Africa, focused on Reclamation, Remembering and Resistance through Education, Arts and Intersectional Solidarity.
Indigenous Peoples Power Project, IP3, is an Indigenous training and support network. Our Mission is to provide nonviolent direct action training, campaign strategy and community organizing tools to support Indigenous communities taking action in defense of their homelands.
Don’t Shoot PDX is an arts and education organization that promotes social justice and civic participation. Our year-round programming allows us to advocate for community members facing racism and discrimination by providing legal representation and direct advocacy.
Flowers for Palestine is a Portland led, mutual aid project that has continuously gathered community in fundraising efforts directly supporting Palestinian Portlanders aiding their family in Gaza amidst the ongoing genocide.
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Yo Buri with FREE warm beverages and refreshments!
Visit Yo’s food & beverage cart in front of PNCA for free coffee and tea and come inside for more free nibbles and alcoholic and NA beverages!
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EXHIBITIONS ON
VIEW AT PNCA |
Avantika Bawa, A Brutal Affair, Installation view, 511 Gallery. Photo by Mario Gallucci.
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The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA is thrilled to announce A Brutal Affair, a solo exhibition by Portland-based artist Avantika Bawa on view from March 2 - April 6, 2024. All events and exhibition viewing are free and open to the general public.
A Brutal Affair displays new works on paper and large-scale installation centered on Avantika Bawa’s queries into the intersections between drawing and sculpture, minimalist traditions and affects of space, place and site.
This exhibition merges selections of two ongoing bodies of works by the artist: A Brutal Affair and The Scaffold Series. A new series of four silkscreen and lithograph prints, published at the Watershed Center for Print Publishing and Research during Avantika’s 2023 Artist Residency, exemplify the artist’s ongoing explorations on Brutalist architecture. Bawa writes, “The formal and architectural qualities of these buildings, along with their histories, functions, and cultural impacts, fascinate me, and I want to remind the viewer how lines, hard edges, and uncomplicated geometry can be beautiful.”
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Selections from the Watershed Center for Print
Publishing and Research Archive
| Ed Cauduro and Dane Nelson Collection Studies Lab +
Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
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Social Production: Selections from the Watershed Center for Print Publishing and Research Archive, Installation view, Ed Cauduro and Dane Nelson Collection Studies Lab. Photo by Mario Gallucci.
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The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture in collaboration with the Watershed Print Center at PNCA is proud to present Social Production: Selections from the Watershed Print Archive, displaying print publications from 2010 to 2023, on view February 21 - May 25, 2024.
Featured Artists:
Sandow Birk, Pat Boas, Melanie Cervantes & Jesus Barrraza, Chris Chandler, Wayne Coyne, Modou Dieng, Nina Elder, Joe Feddersen, The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation, Yoshihiro Kitai, Nikki McClure, Dennis McNett, Paintallica, Alison Saar, Regina Silveira, Eli Sudbrack (Assume Vivid Astro Focus), Storm Tharp and Samantha Wall.
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PNCA Students of Color Coalition - PNCA Atrium
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Expressions of Color aims to explore and celebrate the diversity of the Pacific Northwest College of Art by providing a platform for emerging student artists of color to showcase their talents, inspire new ideas and conversations, and promote cultural exchange.
Through Peace, Justice, and Spring blossoms these artists explore the intersections of race, identity, and artistic expression, highlighting the unique perspectives and experiences of artists who have historically been underrepresented in the art world."
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| crimson consuela ravarra
157 Gallery
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shoulder perching marks a number of investigational works that question how the body occupies spatial time. As a culmination of crimson ravarra’s thesis research, their unhindered curiosity of “how to make time” has led to focusing on the manipulation of the photograph as material, rethinking embodiments of the performative now.
In contextualizing their work as unresolved encounters, shoulder perching asks how we hold sentimentality and remembering in relation to ephemera’s actions. shoulder perching will expand through invitational 1:1 performances with the public, March 28th, 29th and 30th from 12-4pm, and April 4th from 5-7pm.
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I Think God Would Fuck Me
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I Think God Would Fuck Me is a reclamation of godliness through queer sexuality and
tenderness. Inspired by my religious upbringing in the deep south, Christian ideology heavily
shaped my perception of purity and pleasure. My own notions of bodily connection and rapture became degenerate and taboo. These ideas always felt backwards; a loveless, sexless marriage is really more holy than enjoying every drop of sweat and wind touching my body? Abstinence and self hatred is purer than the euphoria of leather stinging my skin? The exhibition invites the viewer to reimagine what they consider godly, and their own connection with the taboo. The show is a solo exhibition featuring 10 pieces of cross-disciplinary media. The pieces shown include large scale graphic acrylic paintings as well as soft sculpture, printmaking works, and photographic prints. A common thread among the work is the involvement of the figure; from costumed photo portraits to vivid, abstract figurative paintings. The bodies depicted in the work are often in sexual and domestic positions. Imagery involving abstract orgy scenes are displayed alongside tender self portraits and delicate soft objects,
tempting the viewer to consider sexual acts as divine, tender, and healing moments worthy of
being displayed and even worshipped.
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Lucas Peixe, Ari Albertson, Yvette Kinyon and
Amber Capwell
Commons Gallery Space
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Element (action) is a visual depiction of the path through the seasons we embark on annually. Chosen based on the season that felt best represented by their work, each artist was tasked with composing works specific to the season assigned. Beginning with water at the southernmost part of the gallery, just as the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere begins with winter in January, we step into a wave of work that speaks through this element, narrated by print and sculpture. Carried along the path we are taken to the next element, air which is linked to the freshness and renewal of spring, representing breezy and light qualities. Here we are moved to look up at sculptures and prints transformed by air. As we drift through this portion we fall into fire. Here we are witness to passion, energy, and the transformative nature of this element through mixed media sculpture and painting. To close out this journey we ground ourselves within the solidity and stability of the earth's elements through wood sculpture, finding ourselves coming back to our origin, ready to begin again.
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EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS IN THE NORTH PARK BLOCKS! |
Alice Christine Walker, Water Bra, 2024, Archival Pigment Print, 17” x 21” (Blackfish Gallery)
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Save the Date for upcoming First Thursdays! |
May 2**
June 6
(** Expanded special programming at PNCA on these dates)
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Art school experience for exceptional
high school students! |
PNCA is known for our Pre-College Summer Intensives, when high school students study in Portland at PNCA for a true art and design school experience. Our Pre-College Summer Intensives help students level up their portfolios for college admissions in the company of other talented students. The sessions also help a teen try on art and design school, getting a better idea if pursuing a four-year degree at a dedicated art and design college feels right.
2024 Session Dates:
Session One: July 15 - July 26
Session Two: July 29 - August 9
Tuition per session: $1925
Experience in-person class at PNCA while leveling up your skills and your portfolio with our summer intensives for high school students.
Please note that on-campus housing is not offered this year.
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About CCAC and PNCA
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture is a platform for cultural production including exhibition, lecture, performance, and publication. Housed within Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), the Center throws open its doors to the greater public to foster conversation and community. Pacific Northwest College of Art is the leading professional arts and design school in the Northwest; we are the heartbeat of learning and experimentation in Portland’s vibrant cultural ecosystem.
We spark curiosity and sharpen skills so students can build creative careers anchored in innovation, justice and civic imagination.
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